Category: Course Design and Preparation

- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Blended and Flipped Course Design: Tried and True Approaches
- $297.00 – $497.00
- If you are interested in blended learning methods, especially the flipped classroom, and how they impact student learning, this Magna Online Seminar provides a thorough explanation of these concepts as well as practical advice for getting started.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For teachers who want to increase student learning by applying mastery learning in their courses, this 20-Minute Mentor explains how mastery learning improves student success, how instructors can apply it without dramatically increasing their workload, and how technology can be an asset and time saver if using this method.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Reimagining STEM Education Through a Humanities Lens
- $297.00 – $497.00
- For STEM educators who are striving to meet student interest in inclusive and meaning-centered education, this Magna Online Seminar provides concrete, evidence-based strategies and a framework for reimagining a STEM education through a humanities lens.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Have you integrated inclusive pedagogies into your teaching and wonder what’s next? Are you ready to be more intentional about making your assignments and course content more equity-minded? This Magna Online Seminar will identify evidence-based approaches to add equity-minded content and improve the success of minoritized students in your disciplinary and institutional context.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Through the use of open pedagogy and open syllabi, instructors can empower students to play a larger role in the development and curation of learning materials for their classes. In this Magna Online Seminar, we will introduce the concepts of open pedagogy and open syllabi and discuss practical ways they have been successfully used in classroom settings with both commercial and open educational resource (OER) materials.
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- Books, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Planning and Designing Your College Course
- $34.00
- Planning and Designing Your College Course focuses on the planning aspects that precede the launching of a course—the work instructors do behind the scenes and that students usually aren’t privy to. You’ll be able to make each key part of your course design learner-centered and obtain strategies to get students to collaborate in the course design process.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Designing & Teaching a Course with a Critical Thinking Focus
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Critical thinking is a skill that students in all disciplines must master. This seminar leads educators through the process of developing and teaching a discipline-based course that targets critical thinking skills and shows participants how to effectively encourage students to think for themselves.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Course Design Strategies to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn how to deliver fundamental course concepts in a way that helps develop the skills that students need in order to think like professionals in your discipline. This seminar helps you adjust your course design and components to focus on the most important materials and concepts and use them to foster engaging interactions during class.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Prepared Students: The Secret’s in the Assignment Strategy
- $297.00 – $497.00
- It's no secret that prepared students learn more and achieve better outcomes. This Magna 40-Minute Seminar helps you identify why your students are not coming to class prepared and then determines what you can do about it.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Best Practices in Flipped Class Design
- $297.00 – $497.00
- See how the flipped learning model can meet the challenges of today's student body. This seminar gives you the knowledge about how flipped learning works in different disciplines and the conceptual tools for constructing a flipped classroom of your own.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Choosing and Using Group Activities in the College Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Whether you teach in a traditional classroom or use flipped instruction strategies, group work can work for you. This seminar introduces you to three different group work methodologies and helps you identify which ones are appropriate for your course, your students, and your teaching style.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Refresh Your Course with Straightforward Design Changes
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn a new set of strategies to help you support a refreshed course, as well as strategies for making measurable improvements over time without adding undue burdens to your schedule.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Taming the Monster: Rethinking the Role of Content
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This seminar teaches you innovative ways to think about the content that is critical for your students to learn and remember. Explore the mission of content in the classroom and how to use it to provide high-quality instruction.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- The Flipped Classroom: Strategies to Overcome Student Resistance and Increase Student Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Explore strategies you can use to create a successful flipped learning experience for you and your students. Find out how to identify the reasons that some students resist the flipped classroom model and how you can address those challenges to increase the likelihood that they will come to class prepared.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
- $297.00 – $497.00
- You'll learn the importance of building CT outcomes, assessments, and activities into your courses. Discover the likely misconceptions your students will have about critical thinking, what you can do to dispel them as quickly as possible, and why tying CT to a specific discipline can help students better understand the concept.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Building Strategies for Competency-Based Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn an influential new approach to higher education from a veteran of federal education policy making. Discover sound arguments to help you gain support of resistant staff and step-by-step strategies that will equip you to start, administer, and teach a CBL degree program.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Accommodating Faculty Mental Health Conditions under the ADA
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This seminar is an opportunity for administrators to receive practical advice on the ADA from an attorney with expertise in higher education compliance. Gain a clear and engaging overview of how to compassionately manage mental health issues without running afoul of the ADA.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Motivate, Engage, and Inspire: Tips for Teaching Modern Learners
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Identify the teaching methods that work best for modern learners, including several strategies to better engage and motivate your Millennial students. You'll learn the five new Rs: Research, rationale, relaxed, rapport, and research-based methods. Delve in-depth into each R and why each one is critical to helping your modern students succeed.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- The Technology-Free Approach to Flipping the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Explore a variety of flipped and active learning strategies they can use in class to allow students to apply, analyze, and evaluate course content.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Facilitate Deep Learning and Student Engagement through Socratic Questioning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- You'll view and analyze effective and ineffective examples of Socratic questioning, so you can continue to support student learning through useful questioning techniques and avoid questions that stifle student inquiry and thinking.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Participants will learn a series of low-risk, very easy to implement strategies, tips, and tools that they can implement to make their lectures more student-centered and engaging in order to promote higher level learning.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!
- $147.00 – $347.00
- Examine the value of interdisciplinary thinking to solve learning challenges, discover how to apply creative approaches to your course outcomes and assessments, and discover new excitement for teaching and collaborating within your discipline.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Collaborative Learning Approaches that Support Neurodiverse Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Explore practical strategies to plan group tasks so that our neurodiverse learners can successfully contribute to collaborative learning activities.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- No matter your familiarity with multimedia, you will leave this seminar knowing how to choose and integrate media effectively into your courses.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Planning by the Calendar
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Careful course planning minimizes stress and improves learning by reducing the chances of content crush and panic often experienced at the end of the term. Learn how to take a more holistic view of your courses by shifting your mindset beyond content to consider course rhythms and the natural ebbs and flows of student motivation.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Engage and Empower Students by Using Wikipedia
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This seminar offers a glimpse into how Wikipedia can empower students to share their knowledge with the world around them. Through real-life strategies and helpful background information, this seminar shows you how to use a tool you already understand in a new way to increase student engagement, boost critical thinking, and improve information literacy.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Energize Your Lectures to Help Students Meaningfully Engage with Your Subject
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Gain insight into your possible teaching blind spots, learn the power of using concrete examples to help students grasp abstract concepts, explore the wide variety of example types that can be used in teaching, and learn the most effective pacing of examples in a course.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Foster Creative and Critical Thinking Through Intrinsic Motivation
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Grit, self-efficacy, and growth mindset are desirable and aspirational traits for students to have and will make the difference between learning at low-level Bloom's Taxonomy vs. truly engaging in and understanding course content, but how does a professor create the motivation it takes for students to achieve this? This online seminar is for any educator struggling with creating such paths to critical and creative thinking.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Time Management for Faculty and Students in Flipped Learning Environments
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Announcing an all-new Magna Online Seminar that will help you with time management before your course starts and as you teach. We'll also give advice to help students work smarter (not harder) when they shift learning new material to the pre-class space. Lastly, we'll cover how to use time wisely during the class meeting in order to tap into the maximum benefits of active learning.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning
- Moving Beyond Data Collection to Meaningful Quality Assurance and Curriculum Improvement: The Future of Curriculum Mapping
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Curriculum mapping (tracking the achievement of program outcomes to the course) is often required at institutions for quality assurance and curriculum improvement. It is a concept that was fairly new in 2010 (Wolfs first MOS) and is now widely accepted. However, many institutions are stuck at data collection and haven't been able to aggregate the data from a course level up to a program level, and even better, include data from other divisions of the institution.
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- Course Design and Preparation, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Engage Early, Build Trust, and Gain Student Retention and Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
- What happens during the first week of class sets the tone for the entire term and can affect retention and student success. For students to work well together in classes, a degree of trust must exist between them, and building this trust quickly is key. Learn about the concept of swift trust, which comes from business but applies to education as well.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Facilitating Success: A Guide to Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Understand the prevalence of unrecognized trauma in the general population and in the educational setting, learn to identify common characteristics of trauma, be able to recognize how maladaptive behaviors serve as coping skills in trauma survivors, learn the six principles for creating a trauma-informed classroom, and strategies to evolve the learning environment and avoid re-traumatization.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate
- $297.00 – $497.00
- For faculty who struggle with engaging content delivery, How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate, is a Magna Online Seminar that gives specific, practical steps to add enthusiasm and excitement to lectures and presentations.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Getting Started with Backward Design: Meaningful and Measurable Learning Outcomes
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learning outcomes and objectives are the first step in backwards design. As such they hold the primary spot in the course development process. Faculty engaged in course or program development who are ill-equipped to design meaningful and measurable outcomes face the prospect of a poorly designed course and less than meaningful learning experiences for students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Preparing Students for Thoughtful, Ethical Decision Making
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This online seminar addresses ways faculty can provide students with skills to identify and contend with ethical matters in specific disciplines and professions, civic life, and as part of the educational process (including academic integrity and interpersonal interactions). We will also discuss ethical considerations for instructors—particularly those new to the profession—around dilemmas they often encounter, including grading, recommendation letters, and boundaries in interactions with students.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Grade Less, Teach Less, Learn More
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This Magna Online Seminar presents a framework of expert-level teaching practices, all backed by the science of how our brains learn. Adopting three elements of a constructivist teaching approach can help to make learners more active, curious, and engaged, all while reducing your workload as an instructor.
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- Course Design and Preparation, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Naturally, adults and children learn in different ways. However, this truism does not necessarily translate when learners transition from secondary to post-secondary educational settings. It's even more elusive in online learning environments, as students are not immediately visible to their instructors.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How to Use Interactive Lecturing as Pedagogy of Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
- In recent years, lectures as a pedagogical approach have come under considerable fire. Critics have called lectures boring, obsolete, old-fashioned, overused, and even unfair. The criticisms, however, are often leveled at one type of lecture: the full-session, transmission-model lecture. Still, there is another type of lecture that has tried and true benefits: the interactive lecture.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Design for Faculty: Instructional Design Basics
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This Magna Online Seminar is perfect for those of you who are just a little lost, a little confused, or really want a glimpse of course planning with a real-life instructional designer. This seminar will focus on the prep work that happens before the syllabus is given to students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Understanding Open Educational Resources (OER): A Powerful Solution for Both Faculty and Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
- In this online seminar, we'll examine the research on Open Educational Resources (OER) usage in collegiate classes and their impact on student retention and success.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for Mastery Learning in Large Session Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
- For educators teaching large-session classes who are interested in implementing mastery learning but feel restricted by the instructor/student ratio, this online seminar offers strategies to implement mastery learning assessments in large enrollment classes.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy
- Blended Learning Toolkit: Design, Deliver, Assess
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Determine the opportunities for online learning in your classes and outline a methodology for developing them.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Service-Learning Course Design: What Faculty Need to Know
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Faculty members who enrich their teaching with service-learning explore the connections between their disciplines and the critical questions facing local and global society. Creating an effective and meaningful service-learning course requires careful planning and logistical know-how. You get an insightful explanation of the workings of a successful service-learning course.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- What to Teach When There Isn’t Time to Teach Everything
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Get advice on what to include, and what you can safely disregard, as you write your syllabi and plan your busy semesters.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning
- Connect Learning Across Courses with Curriculum Mapping
- $297.00 – $497.00
- More and more schools are turning to curriculum mapping. Curriculum maps can enhance your programming and engage your faculty while standing up to increased oversight of by accrediting agencies, funders, students, and employers. We help you get started with curriculum maps and help you improve the overall educational program at your school.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Tools and Techniques for Improving Course Accessibility
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Research suggests that at-risk learners often benefit from reading—as well as listening to—lectures and presentations. The technology already exists. We show you various activities to help you understand the benefits and applications of transcription technology.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- The Flipped Approach to a Learner-Centered Class
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn the skills needed to become more learner-centered and flip your classroom.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Universal Design: Five Steps to Make Your Course Accessible
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Accessibility is not just about disability. It is about increasing learning for all students. Ultimately, it is about student success. Most instructors can improve access to their curricula simply by examining their assumptions and making slight modifications to methods and practices. Learn how in this online seminar.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Why Students Cheat and What We Can Do About It
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Discover what you need to do to reframe your attitudes about and revise your approach to academic dishonesty in this seminar.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- The Flipped Approach to Online Teaching and Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn how to flip your online courses by analyzing models for the flipped class and exploring how to expand and adapt these definitions to include online learning environments.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Team-Based Learning: Strategies for Getting Started
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Team-Based Learning, or TBL, helps students develop a deep and enduring understanding of course content. Using these methods, you'll be able to move beyond covering content to helping students use course concepts to solve interesting, significant problems.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Books, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty
- $34.00
- This book is focused on the foundational elements of effective pedagogy and advises faculty, on proven strategies and best practices to take them successfully from the first day of class to the final exam.
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- Books, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Active Learning: A Practical Guide for College Faculty
- $34.00
- Learn how to apply active learning methods in both small and large classes, as well as in an online teaching environment. Whether you are new to active learning methods or experienced with them, this comprehensive reference book can guide you every step of the way.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Campus Safety, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Specific Student Populations, Strategic Planning, Student Engagement, Student Support, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- Magna Online Seminar Pass
- $1,697.00
- The Magna Online Seminar Pass provides access to seminars that present the latest and greatest in academia and promote skill development for both staff and faculty. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Teaching Strategies
- Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Courses
- $299.00
- The Magna Online Course Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Courses gives teachers the tools to light a path for their students. Led by Linda B. Nilson, PhD, the founding director of Clemson University's Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, it presents research-based, classroom-tested best practices that can be immediately applied in the classroom.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Principles of Effective College Teaching
- $299.00
- This intensive Magna Online Course provides in-depth instruction on the myriad responsibilities of a college teacher. You'll find it an indispensable resource as you prepare to teach.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Classroom Basics for New Teachers
- $299.00
- Classroom Basics for New Teachers is an essential resource for anyone new (or almost new) to the classroom. It delivers research-based, classroom-tested best practices on the myriad responsibilities and challenges of teaching.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Courses
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course
- $299.00
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course is your surest path to online teaching success. This content-rich, 20- to 25-hour Magna Online Course provides core principles and best practices in online teaching—to get you up and running fast, without costly and frustrating false starts.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Subscription, Teaching Strategies
- The Teaching Professor
- From: $19.00 / month
- The Teaching Professor is the lively, highly informative newsletter with a singular purpose: to provide ideas and insight to educators who are passionate about teaching. A source of cutting-edge information and inspiration for more than 10,000 educators at universities and colleges worldwide. Annual Subscription: $149 Monthly Subscription: $19/month Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- Magna Commons
- $2,797.00
- Magna Commons is a subscription-based, on-demand, online, and campus-wide digital library of all of Magna Online Seminars. Suitable for faculty and administrators. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- 20-Minute Mentor Commons
- $2,797.00
- An on-demand digital library of targeted faculty development that offer solutions to common classroom challenges-in just 20 minutes! A subscription gives your entire campus access to all 20-Minute Mentor programs. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Monday Morning Mentor, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- Monday Morning Mentor
- $799.00
- Monday Morning Mentor delivers one of our popular Magna 20-Minute Mentor online programs each week - 16 in the fall and 16 in the spring.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- Is Your Syllabus Sending the Wrong Message?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Your syllabus and classroom policies set the tone for your class, but they may not be creating a welcoming learning environment. Learn tips designed to help you use classroom policies to support student engagement and a smooth-running classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations, Strategic Planning
- What Learning Activities Help Student Veterans Succeed?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn practical techniques you can implement immediately to help student veterans succeed. Techniques include understanding the differences between military and academic decision making, as well as how to teach student veterans how to reflect and write for an academic environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Do I Design Courses to Enhance Student Veterans’ Success?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Military service is a formidable educational experience. Learn how to use course design to help student veterans make the most of it. In the process, you'll also learn how to enhance learning for all students. This program covers situational factors, assessment, and learning activities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- Should I Encourage Experiential Learning During Class? How?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Lectures are not effective for all students. Help all your students make the most of their education by adding experiential learning to your instructional toolkit. Find out how you can bring this high-impact educational practice into your classroom and increase student engagement in learning with this 20 Minute Mentor.
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- How Do I Develop a High-Impact Capstone Course?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Capstone courses help students synthesize their college education before they embark on professional careers or graduate studies. This 20-Minute Mentor shows you how to construct a capstone course for specific learning outcomes.
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- How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Teaching critical reflection skills in STEM courses helps develop professionals who can think, analyze, reason, solve problems creatively, and communicate. While some may be hesitant about teaching these skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses, thats where students and society can reap multiple benefits from critical reflection. Learn how to incorporate these skills in your STEM courses.
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- How Can I Improve Lessons with a 4-step Plan?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Lesson planning is a complex process that can take hours and hours of your time. You need to answer the question, What are my students going to learn today? Mary Clement, EdD, has mastered the lesson planning process and developed a four-step plan that simplifies how you plan and creates even stronger, more engaging lessons.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement
- How Do I Include Introverts in Class Discussions?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Introverted students can find themselves at a disadvantage in the contemporary college classroom. Learn effective teaching strategies to engage introverted students in class discussions and how to guide them beyond their comfort zones.
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- What Are Five Tips for Writing Effective Learning Outcomes?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Developing a clear understanding of where you want your course to go and what your students will learn is essential for faculty. By articulating your pedagogical goals, you will clarify your practices and take both your teaching and your students to the next level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Create Meaningful Assignments for My Students?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Assignments are where students get to practice, engage with course content, demonstrate their growing mastery, and alert you to problems. Learn 16 research-based strategies proven to support student learning and how to apply several of these techniques when designing your course assignments.
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- How Can Backward Design Make My Courses More Accessible?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Backward design is an effective tool in supporting accessibility. Focusing on what you want students to get out of your course, through backward design, will help you develop creative and accessible assignments that help all students, whether or not they have a disability. Why struggle to remove barriers to learning when you can get things right the first time with backward design?
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Institutional Culture, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations, Student Support
- How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Students dealing with physical, cognitive, and other barriers to learning might not be able to participate fully in some activities because of their challenges. This fast and focused session will show you a practical approach to making accommodations and promoting equitable opportunity for learning and engagement for all your students.
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- How Can I Make My Course Content More Accessible?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn the drawbacks inherent in the most common ways of presenting course content and specific techniques for making material more accessible. After watching, you will be able to enhance student learning, help students better prepare for class, and promote student success with assignments and assessments.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement
- How Can I Effectively Teach Unprepared Students?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn principles and practices you can implement immediately to provide learning opportunities for unprepared students and motivate them to become engaged learners. This program takes a broad-spectrum approach, addressing motivation, responsibility, and communication practices and provides tested techniques to address these key issues.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Incorporate a Group Poster Session into my Class?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn how to successfully implement group poster sessions into your classroom. Get the tools and information you need to incorporate this impactful learning tool into your classroom.
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- Can Service-Learning Work in My Discipline?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Many educators believe that service-learning can be a valuable practice…for other educators. But they're sometimes at a loss to understand how it can be incorporated into their own disciplines. In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, we show you what service-learning can add to your courses and provide concrete implementation strategies.
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- How Can I Use LMS Conditional Releases to Efficiently and Intentionally Engage My Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Tools embedded in most learning management systems can simplify faculty workload while intentionally engaging students in course content. One such tool is conditional release, which releases online course material contingent upon a student meeting a particular condition or reaching a predetermined criterion.
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- How Can I Be My Own Instructional Designer?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Sometimes, faculty don't have the support of an instructional designer to help plan their courses. In fact, many faculty never have any help from an instructional designer whatsoever. So, where do they start?
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty
- How Do I Master Mastery Grading?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Standards-based grading and specifications grading are forms of mastery grading, which is an alternative to traditional percentage or points-based grading scales. This program provides specific instruction about the relationship between backward design and mastery grading, while leading to how to implement mastery grading into your course.
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- How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Student engagement—especially in conversation and peer interaction—can be a big challenge for college educators. This program introduces four tried-and-true techniques to create a learning environment that is literally buzzing with student conversation.
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- How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- The benefits of a thoughtfully designed and learning-oriented post-exam review session is a win- win for both faculty and students. When post-exam review is implemented with concepts critical to student learning, students are given the opportunity for metacognition to identify both strengths and gaps in knowledge, explore content to apply classroom knowledge, and differentiate correct from incorrect thinking.
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- How Can I Write a Course Syllabus That’s Worth Reading?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Your syllabus is one of the first impressions your course will make on your students. Need an aha moment to punch up your syllabi? Learn how to transform them from long, boring and text-laden documents to something elegant and engaging that your students will want to read.
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- How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Backwards design is a straightforward process that provides value to both learners and instructors by creating alignment between objectives, class format, and examination questions. This method can assure student success by focusing on the outcomes first and ensuring that the course content aligns with those outcomes, while also creating a better process for instructors by allowing them to focus on their own content more efficiently.
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- How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Changing an educational format or program can be challenging for both instructors and students. Viewing classroom change through the Kubler-Ross change curve helps determine that stress and resistance can be managed through to experimentation and integration over time.
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- How Do I Go Beyond the Basics of Universal Design for Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty or course designers who are interested in creating an interaction-focused solution to universal design, this Magna 20-Minute Mentor that gives specific ideas that can be implemented on any campus.
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- How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program explains, through the lens of the literature, how the brain processes information, and identifies why microactivities are a great method of formative assessment to check in with your students learning and move information closer to long-term memory.
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- What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- We can all use fresh ideas for engaging students with course content. What can the games we play teach us about designing our courses? Games have kept people engaged for decades because they have systematically designed engagement practices. In this program we will explore how to recognize these engagement practices and apply them into course design. Learn how to use the games that surround us to make our courses more powerful.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can I Increase Student Completion Rates in Online Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In this program, learn how to adopt a systemic and practical approach to increase online completion rates in the context of declining overall enrollments, increasing student diversity, and rising educational costs. And, understand that instructors partnering with instructional designers in the context of institutional support is key to implementing the proposed framework elements.
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- How Do I Create a Class That Support First-Year Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn several design-based first-year supports, how to create opportunities in the facilitation of your courses to create and build classroom skills, and how to plan/implement evaluations to continue to support students in their educational journey. Designing with students in mind first helps you be purposeful in your approach to building their skills and meeting their needs.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Promoting Academic Integrity Improve Learning Outcomes for Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In this 20-minute session, you'll come away with expert strategies from a world-renowned teaching and learning specialist that will move students toward becoming effective learners with integrity, allowing them to pursue understanding, learn from failures, and continue learning for life.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn techniques you can use to deepen student understanding of course material—after class is over—that you presented in the classroom. These techniques include creating reflection videos and cartoon making, among others.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program demonstrates several techniques to engage student brains in learning. All can be incorporated into either a traditional 50-minute or a longer class period. Since each students brain is unique and may learn in different ways, the presenters offer specific techniques that help vary the learning experience during a typical classroom time frame.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program addresses how student misconceptions about course content can become barriers to learning and offers several techniques to help teachers facilitate the adoption of alternative viewpoints in their students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- What 5 Play-based Activities Can I Use to Create an Active, Learning-centered Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This informative program brings to life college classroom-tested games that work to build student rapport, inject new life into lecture-heavy teaching, and increase success rates among students.
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- Beyond Syllabus Policies: What Strategies Help Students Take Responsibility for Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In this 20-minute session, discover best practices to follow in the classroom that will encourage students to become better learners and not engage in unproductive behaviors.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Plan (or Revise) My Courses More Efficiently?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Do you have a system or standard process for prepping a course you've taught before? Where do you start? Often, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. What most of us need is a strategic, instructionally sound set of steps to help guide our decision-making. This 20-Minute Mentor provides just that, a four-step model considering the big picture goals, major content areas, calendar implications, and assessments.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can the Three C’s of Course Design Enhance Students’ Online Performance?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This informative program offers several concrete methods for increasing student engagement in the online classroom. It's unique in that it focuses on three key elements of effective online course design. By considering consistency, creativity, and community, you'll be better able to engage your online students and promote student success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Why Should I Migrate from Traditional Resources to OER in My Courses?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program looks at the implementation of OER from the perspectives of students, faculty, and institutions, and the reasons why faculty and institutions should consider adopting and using OER in place of traditional learning resources.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement
- What is Gamification and How Can it Promote a Growth Mindset?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Gamification uses gaming elements and mechanics in a nongame context—and it's really simple to implement if you know where to start.
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- How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program explains what you need to do to gamify more courses and ensure students persist even through failure. You'll be exposed to several effective gamification strategies and examples of each. You'll also explore how these strategies can foster student persistence and engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement
- How Do I Design Effective Combinations of Gamified Elements to Encourage Deeper Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- When gamifying your courses, it's vital that you measure the effectiveness of gamification and identify which aspects keep students most engaged. At times, you might have to make small changes. At other times, you might have to stop gamifying and reevaluate. This program will help you find the right fit for your courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Bring Pop to My Classroom with Pop Culture?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Concrete strategies for applying pop culture to your course content. It will help you create a positive and unique classroom environment in which students are more connected to not only what they're learning, but also to you.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Earn Swift Trust in My Online Classes?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Discover how the core elements of creating trust—communicating fully and openly, delivering on promises, building confidence, recognizing concerns—can be accomplished in an online course setting.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- How Can I Inspire Creative Confidence in the Classroom?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn a step-by-step method for cultivating your students creativity in any subject area while deepening their engagement with course content and strengthening their presentation skills. You'll learn how to use 21st-century approaches and techniques, like transactive thinking and creativity tools, to help your students imagine, innovate, and implement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- How Can I Leverage Force Multipliers in the Classroom?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This presentation will show you how to enhance your productivity and improve your efficiency by accessing a host of what could easily be described as virtual teaching assistants. You'll learn how to get help with all the things that matter to you: grading, teaching, interacting with students, conducting research, and kindling students interest in learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- How Can I Engage Generation C?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In just 20 minutes, this presentation covers the nature of the Generation C phenomenon and how it relates to classroom management, formative assessment tools, and low- and no-cost techniques for enhancing student engagement. From cell phones to Post-Its, this presentation is full of practical tips on how to connect with students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Revitalize My Classroom With Workforce Development Concepts?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- You will learn how adaptations of common workforce development practices can help you get more out of your students and help your students get more out of their college experience.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Do I Create the Ideal Learning Environment for Modern Learners?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Based on a unique blend of current research and cognitive and educational psychology, this session offers practical and action-oriented techniques instructors in all disciplines can use to increase student engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Do Mini-lectures Improve Student Engagement?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn proven techniques you can use immediately to transform your lectures from necessary evils to persuasive presentations. Discover how educating and motivating students gets easier when you develop mini-lectures that are based on how the brain works.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Do I Align Learning Objectives with Technology Using Backward Design?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn how to peel back the layers of your teaching challenges and work backwards from your learning objectives to your choice of technology solutions.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Minutes?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Discover how UDL benefits all students and gives extra support to vulnerable groups, including single parents, working students, and military learners.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Days?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program covers four effective UDL strategies that go beyond legal compliance requirements. You will finish with a 20-day plan to customize a learning experience for all students that will last throughout the course and beyond the classroom
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn how to assess most critical thinking skills using an assortment of methods, such as true/false, matching, multiple choice, and multiple true/false tests. Receive step-by-step instruction for designing objective items to assess particular cognitive operations in critical thinking skills for a wide range of disciplines.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Supporting Online Faculty
- What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn the merits of absolute grading versus grading on a curve, the pluses and minuses of letter-based and point-based grading, and whether—and how—to properly weight assignments across a semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Gain a portfolio of guidelines for assignments that test student constructed responses. You will learn the keys to defining learning goals, creating assignments, and drafting rubrics to boost and measure critical thinking outcomes.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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- How Can I Design Critical Thinking into My Course?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program identifies both general and discipline-specific critical thinking skills and how to turn these skills into good student learning outcomes. Learn to define critical thinking when designing or redesigning courses and identify the type of content conducive to practicing critical thinking.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- This program presents five different memory-boosting strategies to incorporate into your teaching. Learn how to use cueing, the testing effect, semantic encoding, peer teaching, and the spacing effect to help your students learn more course content, move to higher levels of learning, and recall information more easily on exams.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Effectively Use Class Preparation Assignments?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Class preparation assignments, or CPAs, enable you to use your class time more effectively and move students toward higher levels of learning. This program prepares you to create class preparation assignments that will transform the classroom experience for you and your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- What Works and What Doesn’t When Teaching Large Classes?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- You don't have to compromise your expectations when you teach large classes, but you might need to alter your approach. Learn the ways to manage a large class and make it feel smaller, more intimate, and more manageable in just 20 minutes.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- How Can I Use Technology to Improve Learning?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- The rapidly expanding body of instructional technologies can quickly overwhelm you, but it doesn't have to when you know how to narrow your options. This program presents some simple guiding principles for choosing technology to use in the classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- How Can I Use Twitter to Improve Teaching and Learning?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Discover how you can use Twitter as an educational tool. Whether you're new to the world of hashtags and tweets, or you feel like you at least know your way around a Twitter handle, this program will provide you with practical techniques you can use to integrate social media into your classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Design Copyright-Compliant Courses?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Spare yourself a lot of problems and potential litigation by keeping your course design and use of materials within the limits of the law. This presentation will give you an overview of fair use and copyright law, and will show you best practices to keep you on the right side of the law.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Linking, Embedding & Streaming: What’s Legal? What’s Not?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- It's your responsibility to understand how copyright law and fair use regulations affect what material you can share with students and how. This program will help you understand what is and isn't permitted in online teaching and will give you guidelines to help you find your own way when you encounter those areas that need a judgment call.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- Where Can I Find Flippable Moments in My Classes?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- If you have been wanting to flip but don't know where to start or fear you'll do it all wrong, this program is for you. Identify the flippable lessons in any course and determine which parts of your lessons you should actually invest time and energy in flipping.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Structure a Flipped Lesson?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn the structure and find the confidence to flip a lesson in a course you already teach or a new course you are designing. Discover how to integrate flipped lessons into the overall course for a seamless learning experience for your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Is Storyboarding? And How Can It Help Me Flip My Class?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- You don't have to be an artist or have any kind of advanced production skills to benefit from a storyboard. After this program you will be able to use a storyboard to create a more powerful video that supports learning objectives and reinforces the benefits of the flipped classroom.
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